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Between Artifacts and Texts
Anders Andren
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Description for Between Artifacts and Texts
Paperback. Translator(s): Crozier, Alan. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology: whether investigations of mate rial culture are necessary at all when studying societies with writing. Is it not sufficient to read and interpret texts if we wish to understand and explain historical periods? This book has been written out of a conviction that archaeology is important, even in the study of literate societies. Yet the book has also been written out of a conviction that the importance of the historical archaeologies is ... Read more
This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology: whether investigations of mate rial culture are necessary at all when studying societies with writing. Is it not sufficient to read and interpret texts if we wish to understand and explain historical periods? This book has been written out of a conviction that archaeology is important, even in the study of literate societies. Yet the book has also been written out of a conviction that the importance of the historical archaeologies is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475794113
SKU
V9781475794113
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Between Artifacts and Texts
"This is an excellent book for use as a text to provide students with a view of historical archaeology in global perspective or, as it was in my case, a very interesting book to be enjoyed for the pleasure of reading and for the information it presents." (Journal of Anthropological Research (November 1999) "... an ambitious text in ... Read more